Description
Regular expressions don't support ^ metacharacter
For queries on string content, range indexes work well for exact comparisons (
author = 'Joe Doe') or regular expressions (matches(author, "^Joe.*")) You can also use a full text index for the latter.
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The above formulation suggests that eXist-db allows the use of the ^ metacharacter to match the starting position within the string in a regular expression. eXist-db uses Lucene 4.10.4 for full text search and according to the documentation, this metacharacter is not allowed.
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missing fullstop after
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Proposed wording
For queries on string content, range indexes work well for exact comparisons (author = 'Joe Doe') or regular expressions (matches(author, "Joe.*")). You can also use a full text index for the latter, but be aware that not all metacharacters and patterns of regular expressions are allowed, for instance caret (^) to match the starting position. See the Lucene documentation for more details.
Please provide the following
- exist-db version:
6.2.0 - documentation version:
6.2.0